Known as, "The Jewel of the Hills." An eastern part of San Diego County, it divided in two: Nice La Mesa and Ghetto La Mesa. Nice La Mesa, running from about Lake Murray Blvd to about Dallas St, is comprised mostly full of old people and old Russian people. Ghetto La Mesa, running from El Cajon Blvd. to way down University, is, well, ghetto. It's not too East County to have too many SRH & Skin bros running around, but the weather is temperate and the land has lots of trees and foliage of the sort.

"Dude where do you live so I can pick you up for the awesome kegger tonight?"

"Well man, I live across the 8 freeway from San Diego State in La Mesa in a nice house overlooking the lake."

"Really? I live in a cramped and dirty 6 bedroom mini-dorm with 14 dudes! Wow, you're so lucky!"

A city in East San Diego County. Like most of East County it is warm and dry 99% of the time. Also like the rest of East county, there are more stoners than nonstoners in the teenage population. There are a few less bro's than El Cajon or Santaa but they're here, don't kid yourself. The only bad thing about La Mesa is the old people that honk at the approx. 800 million skateboarders and don't seem to understand the expression "Share the road."